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Delete folder from internal storage in android?


How to delete folder(contain some folder and file) from internal storage? Folder have some below tree.

folder
|_________  C2 (folder)
             |________1 (folder)
                      |________1.gif
                      |________2.gif
                      |________3.gif
                      |________4.gif
             |________2 (folder)
                      |________1.gif
                      |________2.gif
                      |________3.gif
                      |________4.gif
             |________3 (folder)
                      |________1.gif
                      |________2.gif
                      |________3.gif
                      |________4.gif
             |________4 (folder)
                      |________1.gif
                      |________2.gif
                      |________3.gif
                      |________4.gif
             |________5 (folder)
                      |________1.gif
                      |________2.gif
                      |________3.gif
                      |________4.gif

|_________  C2.xml (file)

I want to delete folder and containing all files

fil.delete();

System.out.println("boolean =>" + fil.delete());

but above code shows false. Please help.


Solution

  • Check this out.

    public void deleteRecursive(File fileOrDirectory) {
    
       if (fileOrDirectory.isDirectory()) {
           for (File child : fileOrDirectory.listFiles()) {
              deleteRecursive(child);
           }
       }
    
       fileOrDirectory.delete();
     }
    

    for explaination How to delete a whole folder and content?